Diane Ackerman Quotes
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
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I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
